Claims of double-headed crustacean caught in Gulf

A malformed mutant caught in the nets of a Far North trawler has fishos wondering how the bizarre double headed creature came to be and if indeed the photo is real.

A malformed mutant caught in the nets of a Far North trawler has fishos wondering how the bizarre double headed creature came to be.

A post to the On The Deck – Footage from Australia’s Commercial Fisherman Facebook page claimed the otherwise healthy looking prawn, but with a distinct difference was caught in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Dumping of Covid vaccine and toxic water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been put forward as reasons for the creation of misshapen crustacean with two heads.

It been claimed two head prawn was caught by commercial fishers in the Gulf Of Carpentaria. Picture: On The Deck – Footage from Australia’s Commercial Fisherman

In the hilarious list of more than 180 comments on the post comparisons were made with the three headed fish from the Simpsons and the mythical push-me-pull-you, double headed llama from Dr Do Little.

“It won’t survive predators, it will get eaten easily and they will get confused which way to go,” one comment read.

And another commenter posted a second photo of a two headed prawn.

Another two headed prawn posted in the comments.

While other fishos wondered how the prawn goes to potty and if there were other conjoined creatures swimming the Gulf with two tails.

But it’s not the first time a double headed North Queensland prawn had tongues wagging.

In 2016 the mystery of mutant two-headed prawn had aquarists trying to get their owns heads around the discovery at the Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville.

In an age of deep fakes and Photoshop the veracity of the claim has been questioned but two heads can result from the incomplete splitting of an embryo, although the phenomena is rare.

The four-legged chicken was hatched with a rare genetic condition known as polymelia. Picture: Facebook

And recently four-legged chicken born in Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands turned a few heads – and not just down at KFC’s head office.

It was later discovered the bird suffered from a rare condition called polymelia.

A two-headed gecko was also spotted in a Clifton Beach living room in 2018 and a bull with two faces presented at Mareeba Saleyards in 2015.

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Originally published as Claims of double-headed crustacean caught in Gulf